From Dick Jordan
Bud Kaeding took the USAC West Coast 360 feature Saturday at Groppetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway.
USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE RESULTS: April 16, 2011 – Tulare, California – Groppetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-16.265; 2. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-16.334; 3. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-16.381; 4. Ryan Bernal, 11D, Olmstead-16.414; 5. T.J. Smith, 14, LeGras-16.456; 6. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-16.604; 7. Steven Tiner, 94, Tiner-16.749; 8. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-16.764; 9. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-16.884; 10. Peter Murphy, 4, Eberhardt-16.888; 11. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-16.918; 12. Greg Alexander, 72, Tyler-16.986; 13. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-16.997; 14. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-17.154; 15. Cole Peard, 58, Peard-17.242; 16. Kolby Araki, 71G, Ishii-17.307; 17. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-17.346; 18. Andrew Murray, 18, Murray-17.775; 19. Matt Day, 97, Day-17.885; 20. Jeff Miller, 5X, Swaim-17.909; 21. Dave Knott, 28, Knott-18.810; 22. Nico Russo, 3N, Russo-NT; 23. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faria, 2. Bernal, 3. Murphy, 4. Hamblin, 5. Kirkbride, 6. Tiner, 7. Araki, 8. Miller. NT.
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gutierrez, 2. Kaeding, 3. J. VanderWeerd, 4. Smith, 5. Knott, 6. Carlile, 7. Murray. NT.
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R. VanderWeerd, 2. Alexander, 3. Howell, 4. Logan, 5. Peard, 6. Day, 7. Russo. NT.
FEATURE: (21 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Jace VanderWeerd, 4. Peter Murphy, 5. Richard VanderWeerd, 6. Wes Gutierrez, 7. Ricky Kirkbride, 8. Justyne Hamblin, 9. Kolby Araki, 10. Dennis Howell, 11. Nico Russo, 12. Dave Knott, 13. Rusty Carlile, 14. Steven Tiner, 15. Jeff Miller, 16. Greg Alexander, 17. Cole Peard, 18. Jonathan Logan, 19. Danny Faria Jr., 20. T.J. Smith, 21. Matt Day. NT.
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**Faria flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Bernal, Laps 8-21 Kaeding.
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NEXT WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: April 30 – Groppetti Automotive Tulare (CA) Thunderbowl Raceway